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Alexandre Heeren¹, Charlotte Busana¹, Charlotte Coussement¹

¹Laboratory for Experimental Psychopathology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain 10, Place du Cardinal Mercier - 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

Psychologica Belgica

|November 28, 2018

Summary

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This study investigated if mindfulness training alone could help trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder). Results suggest mindfulness improved first, then reduced hair pulling, indicating it may be a standalone treatment.

Keywords:

Bayesian approach Hair-pulling Mindfulness-based interventions Single-case Trichotillomania

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Background:

Mindfulness-based interventions combined with habit reversal training show promise for trichotillomania.
Previous studies combined both interventions, making it unclear if mindfulness or habit reversal alone causes benefits.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine if mindfulness training, without habit reversal, can alleviate trichotillomania.
To determine if mindfulness training alone is an effective intervention for hair-pulling disorder.

Main Methods:

A single-case design using a Bayesian probabilistic approach.
Compared a client's hair loss severity and mindfulness level to a normative sample (n=15) at baseline, post-treatment, and 6-month follow-up.

Main Results:

Mindfulness levels improved from baseline to post-treatment compared to the normative sample.
A significant beneficial effect on hair-loss severity, transferred from mindfulness improvement, was observed at the 6-month follow-up.

Conclusions:

Mindfulness training alone may be a suitable clinical intervention for trichotillomania.
This case study provides preliminary evidence that mindfulness training can independently reduce hair-pulling behaviors.